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2012-2017 Newsletters [1] (2012-2017)

handle is hein.peggy/nwsltrs0002 and id is 1 raw text is: All at Emory unless noted * Sept. 14-15, 2012: Vulnerabilities and Identities: An Uncomfortable Conversation * Oct.19-20, 2012: Corporate Rights versus Children's Interests (at UBC) = Feb. 22-23, 2013: Contract as Public Law at the Intersection of Globalization and Privatization * April 5-6, 2013: Vulnerability and Labor * June 2013: Comparative Perspectives on Privatization (in Sweden) SJD CANDDTE UPDATES Joesphine Ndagire: (Makerere University Uganda) Josephine re- ceived the Max Plank Society doctoral scholarship for con- ducting research at the Max Plank Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Germany. She also will spend time at the Institute of Public Law, University of Tartu in Estonia. Joining Josephine this year is Zahara Nampewo: (Makerere University, Uganda) Zahara is a feminist lawyer from Uganda. Her research involves a socio-legal analysis of marriage and the family and law's role in construct- ing women's sexuality and morality. By Vanessa King Much of Larson's scholarship Professor Jane E. Larson, the concerns feminist legal theory Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and women's legal history. at the University of Wiscon- Her published work incindes sin and a leading feminist legal a much-cited 1993 Columbia scholar, died Dec. 24, in Madi- Law Review article on the de- son, Wisconsin. velopment and decline of the Larson's family and friends tort of seduction, Women Un- contacted the Feminism and derstand So Little, They Call Legal Theory Project at Emory My Good Nature 'Deceit': A Law to see whether the Mac- Feminist Rethinking of Seduc- Millan Law Lihrary was inter- tion. She later co-wrote Hard esed in archiving her papers. Profesor Jane E. Larson Bargains: The Politics of Sex The library agreed, anticipat- died Dec. 24. The Hugh F. with Linda Hirschman (Oxford ing Larson's papers will he a re- MacMilan Law Libraryawill University Press, 1999). source for those interested in re- archive her papers. She was a co-author of the his- searching the history of feminist torians' amicus brief in the re- legal theory. Also in the archives are Martha productive privacy case Planned Parenthood Albertson Fineman's papers and Catherine of Southeastern Washington v. Casey (1992) Roraback's papers relating to reproductive in which the U.S. Supreme Coort ultimately rights and women's history. affirmed the core holdings of Roe v. Wade. Critical Queer Studies, written by Casey Charles, examines contempo- rary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and ho queer life, analyzing the effects ofm so s'AL MeiA legal doctrines-jury selection, un- The VHC Initiative wanted sexual advance, negligence, ha lanhe/ hate crimes, and gay marriage-on the a e lanch o a d production and reception of queer film Fooek neNew and fiction. Exploring the intersection S t S of these discourses by discussing inter- Stb ycon Casey Charesvexaminsncontempo rari ly k o nA eia film s, and docuentarie that and book demonstrates how the law maintains its hold over updates and other the queer subject through promoting certain ideological opportunities. fictions and conversely how film and literature draw upon the material realities of queer legal status to dramatize con- flicts between law and the marginalized subject. The Gender in Law, Culture and Society series published by Ashgate, will address key issues of theoretical debates related to gender, culture and the law. The series will be edited by Martha Albertson Fineman.

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